Once You Know (documentary film review)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
What does it mean to truly understand the reality of humankind’s ecological predicament, and what should you do with that understanding once you possess it?
Review: The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Sixty years ago this year, the late great British science fiction author J. G. Ballard published his novel The Drowned World. The book is a disaster novel, one that has come to be regarded as a seminal contribution to the climate fiction genre.
Review of Silence in the City, a short story collection edited by Shaun Kilgore
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Last year, author and publisher Shaun Kilgore put out a call for stories for a new fiction anthology. The prompt was to write a tale in which life in a modern industrial city grinds to a halt due to a sudden disruption to its power supply.
Review: Journey Star by John Michael Greer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
John Michael Greer’s new novel Journey Star, like his other fiction to date, delightfully resists categorization.
Review of Asphalt: A History by Kenneth O’Reilly
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In this, his latest book, historian Kenneth O'Reilly tells the story of what he persuasively argues is one of humankind’s most underappreciated resources.
Review of Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Plastic is a beautifully written, intricate mosaic that weaves memoir, poetry, cultural and scientific history, chemistry, biography, etymology, journalistic reportage and self-reflection into a penetrating rumination on humanity’s relationship with plastic.
The Black Tears of the Sea (documentary film review}
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
A little-known menace lurks beneath the sea. In oceans around the world, thousands of sunken World War II vessels litter the seafloor, their fuel tanks rusting away and either actively leaking or poised to leak their contents into the environment.
Review: Power by Richard Heinberg
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
A brilliant and searching probe into power in all its forms, this book shows how our species’ pursuit, overuse and abuse of power is plunging us ever deeper into existential crisis.